Increases in tick-borne disease prevalence and transmission are important public health
issues. Efforts to control these emerging diseases are frustrated by the struggle to control tick …

Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) of free-living wild animals can be classified into three
major groups on the basis of key epizootiological criteria:(i) EIDs associated with “spill-over” …

Powassan virus (POWV, Flaviviridae) is the only North American member of the tick-borne
encephalitis serogroup of flaviviruses. It is transmitted to small-and medium-sized mammals …

A species of Borrelia spirochetes previously unknown from North America has been found to
be transmitted by Ixodes scapularis ticks. Infected ticks are positive for Borrelia spp. by DFA …

The tick-borne pathogen Powassan virus is a rare cause of encephalitis in North America
and the Russian Far East. The number of documented cases described since the discovery …

Powassan virus (POW)(Flaviviridae: Flavivirus) is the cause of rare but severe neuroinvasive
disease in North America and Russia. The virus is transmitted among small-and medium …

Powassan virus (POWV) is an emerging tick-transmitted flavivirus that circulates in North
America and Russia. Up to 5% of deer ticks now test positive for POWV in certain regions of …

Infected deer ticks (Ixodes scapularis) were allowed to attach to naive mice for variable
lengths of time to determine the duration of tick attachment required for Powassan (POW) …

Although Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in pregnant women can cause placental damage,
intrauterine growth restriction, microcephaly, and fetal demise, these disease manifestations …

The abundance of Ixodes scapularis Say (Ixodes dammini Spielman, Clifford, Piesman &
Corwin), the vector tick of the Lyme disease spirochete and other human pathogens, is …